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Walkway by the Limehouse Cut, Bow Common
The walkway gives access from Bow Common Lane to Hawgood Street, along the front of new apartment blocks.
Image: © David Hawgood
Taken: 10 Oct 2015
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Limehouse Cut
Looking south-west to the bridge carrying Bow Common Lane across the canal.
Image: © David Kemp
Taken: 1 Nov 2010
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Bow Common Lane bridge over Limehouse Cut
Looking Southwest. See also
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Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 3 Sep 2008
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Aqua Vista Development at Bow Common Lane
New flats beside Limehouse Cut. The central block, with recessed balconies, is Craig Tower.
Image: © Richard Durley
Taken: 21 Sep 2011
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Building flats, Bow Common, 2010
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 11 Dec 2010
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Bow Common Lane bridge over Limehouse Cut
Limehouse Cut is hardly one of England's more popular canals, so it was fortunate that a small cruiser was passing under this bridge just as I took the photograph. This is looking northeast. Bow Common Lane is the name of the road to the left of the bridge, while at the right it changes its name to Upper North Street. It is not a classified road, but does carry a bus route - the 309 from Bethnal Green to Canning Town. It is one of those roads beloved of cabbies and white-van men who know 'all the dodges'.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 3 Sep 2008
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Bow, road bridge
Carrying Bow Common Road over Limehouse Cut.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 26 Aug 2012
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Bow Common Lane Bridge, Limehouse Cut
The bridges over the cut are named but not visibly numbered.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 11 Dec 2010
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The Limehouse Cut from Bow Common Lane
The Limehouse Cut was built in 1770 to connect the River Lea to the Thames and so shorten the journey for vessels travelling from the River Lea to the Pool of London. It did this by cutting out several loops of the lower Lea and the Thames. In the 19th century it was so polluted that "no bargee who fell in had any chance of surviving his ducking in the filthy water".
The Limehouse Cut was closed to pedestrians for many years but the towpath has been opened up in the last few years so that it is now possible to walk from Limehouse Basin to Three Mills via the new bridge under the Blackwall Tunnel approach road.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 26 Feb 2014
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Invicta Close by the Limehouse Cut
This short street runs from Hawgood Street to a walkway beside the Limehouse Cut.
Image: © David Hawgood
Taken: 10 Oct 2015
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